@haitch
Thank you again for an honest opinion & your thoughts as I truly appreciate it !! Will have to give it some thought, do some more research & go from there !!
Cheers to you @haitch and this great community !!

tbh I would side with @Marc too, try starting with around 16-??? tb, if you want to make a McChicken every week.
Though 32tb for me gives me 200 BURST a week so (200/7) / 32 = 0.89 BURST a day for each TB.
If you are into small earning then go ahead, I won't stop you, but just recommended by me and Marc
To break electricity bills, you would need 3 tb at the minimum, or to make around 3 cents per day because HDD doesn't use that much power.

@taylor change OS time to auto and timezone to auto. Stop the wallet and then start it again. If that does not work download the db from here https://www.dropbox.com/sh/fnd6mple1t91gne/AADI2PmQrPbPJbtBVMc5oN8sa?dl=0
That blockchain is only a few days old so you don't have to wait to sync too long.
V/r,
Cybermancer
Note: I had the same problem. Also, I'm using qbundle 1.9 because the update messed my wallet up before. I don't recommend the new update yet. It has bugs.